Improvement in shaft-betls



w. H. NICHOLS.

I SHAFT-BELL. No. 173,176. Patented Feb. a, 1876.

N. PETERS, FHDTO-LITHDGRAPHER, WASHINGTON D C UNITED STATES PATENT OE IOE.

WILLIAM H. NICHOLS, OF E sT HAMPTON, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR o THE BEVIN BROTHERS MANUEAOTURING ooMPANY, or sAME PLACE.

-IMPRIOVEMENT m SHAFT-BELLS.

Specification forming part of Letters PatentNo. l 73, [76, dated February 8, 1876; application filed November 8, 1875.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM H. NIoHOLs, of East Hampton, in the county of Middlesex and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements Pertaining ,eye, having a loop at the lower end to receive the loop of the tongue, and a screw-body above, which runs up through the strap into the thill.

The top of the bell has a bed or socket, f, for

the loop of the screw-eye, so that a person can turn the screw-eye in or out by turning the bell, and this socket causes the screw-eye to hold the bell more firmly to the thill than it otherwise would.

I claim as myinvention- In combination, the bell c, havin g the socket f, the tongue d, and vscrew-eye 6, adapted to hold the tongue in place, and a convenient and ready means of attachment to the shaft,

all substantially as and for the purpose set forth. I

WM. H. NICHOLS.

Witnesses:

WM. EDGAR. SIMONDs, R; F. GAYLORD. 

